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Hope is Not a Plan
Wow, what a great weekend clinic I had at our home field!Gil and Brian were in freezing Iowa teaching the SCTP coaches and athletes in the snow while I took the clinic in 80-degree Houston. I got lucky this time!I still had some folks looking down the gun at first, but that didn’t take long to stop. Once we went through the animations it became clear that they all needed to form new habits and have a plan for every sho... Read more…
Advance School Week One: Lots of “A-has” and “Wows!”
We had a great first week of Advance School. There were lots of “a-has” and we gave everyone some things to work on to improve their shooting.We had several “move, mount, shoot” people for the first time who were amazed at how much easier the OSP system was to make the movie happen over and over again. It was different, so we had to make it a habit and they now need to go and practice it to continue to make it a habit.... Read more…
Make Your Plan and Shoot Your Plan!
Last weekend in Hurricane, Utah was great and we found out why it’s called “Hurricane”: on Saturday the wind came up and blew 40-50 mph. It was hard to even stay on your feet, especially when a gust came up.They had a registered shoot in the morning. Everyone left soon after shooting and I wondered why. Well, at 1:30 when we went out to the course that’s when the wind started. And oh my, did it start. The day before so... Read more…
More on Deliberate Practice
Last month we did an extra Coaching Hour on deliberate practice and we will be doing our fifth one next week on the topic!We have been learning even more about skill-building and the value of deliberate practice. Skill is the ability to anticipate ahead of where you are while shooting. To hit a moving target, we must see it where it is and shoot where it will be.In other words, we must anticipate where it will be in th... Read more…
Welcome to the Zone!
Now, read this sentence out loud over and over:“Better get to do to what know don’t but shot better a be could I wish I.” You got through the first four words fine because they began to make a thought. But on the fifth word, you began to have to look at each word to interpret what it was, because it did not create a thought or picture.You switched on the fifth word from the anticipation circuit in your long-term memory... Read more…
